Occupy Tokyo / / Anne Gonon, Christian Galan.

• Superior document: Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences Series
• VerfasserIn: Gonon, Anne,
• TeilnehmendeR: Galan, Christian.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : Brill,, [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (117 pages)

A political, anthropological and societal analysis of the 2015-2016 spontaneous Japanese youth movement SEALDs, the Student Emergency Action for Liberal Democracy.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- A Note on Japanese Terms -- Abstract -- Keywords -- Introduction: SEALDs in the Protest Movement Landscape -- Part 1: The Wheels Come Off -- 1 Social Upheaval -- 1.1 Financial Crisis -- 1.2 Political Crisis -- 1.3 Controversial Role of the Japan Self-Defence Forces -- 2 Japanese Youth and the Crisis -- 2.1 An Increasingly Uncertain Future -- 2.2 University, and Then What? -- 2.3 Attaining Adulthood: an Impossible Dream? -- 2.4 Generational Issues -- 2.5 From Political Apathy to Political Engagement -- Part 2: The SEALDs Movement -- 3 Influential Factors -- 3.1 The Shock of Fukushima -- 3.2 Intellectuals Take a Stand -- 4 Learning by Doing -- 4.1 Understanding SEALDs as Inquiry -- 4.2 Digital Technology and the Group Dynamic -- 4.3 Absence of Public Space(s) -- 5 SEALDs in the Japanese Political Landscape -- 5.1 Mode of Action -- 5.2 SEALDs' List of Demands -- 5.3 Defining the Movement -- 5.4 Democracy as a Way of Life -- Conclusion: What Next after SEALDs? -- Citizenship Education and Individual Experience -- Japanese Democracy in Review -- Looking to the Future -- Appendix 1: Unusual Backgrounds of the First Students to Join SEALDs -- Appendix 2: Timeline of the SEALDs Movement -- Appendix 3: the SEALDs Manifesto -- Bibliography.